SQLServer: How to sort table names ordered by their foreign key dependency

Question

The following SQL separates tables according to their relationship. The problem is with the tables that sort under the 3000 series. Tables that are part of foreign keys and

Answer 1

My rendition with moderate tweaks: This one is SQL-2005+ and works on databases without the "rowguidcol":

WITH TablesCTE(SchemaName, TableName, TableID, Ordinal) AS
(
    SELECT
        OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(so.object_id) AS SchemaName,
        OBJECT_NAME(so.object_id) AS TableName,
        so.object_id AS TableID,
        0 AS Ordinal
    FROM
        sys.objects AS so
    WHERE
        so.type = 'U'
        AND so.is_ms_Shipped = 0
    UNION ALL
    SELECT
        OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(so.object_id) AS SchemaName,
        OBJECT_NAME(so.object_id) AS TableName,
        so.object_id AS TableID,
        tt.Ordinal + 1 AS Ordinal
    FROM
        sys.objects AS so
    INNER JOIN sys.foreign_keys AS f
        ON f.parent_object_id = so.object_id
        AND f.parent_object_id != f.referenced_object_id
    INNER JOIN TablesCTE AS tt
        ON f.referenced_object_id = tt.TableID
    WHERE
        so.type = 'U'
        AND so.is_ms_Shipped = 0
)

SELECT DISTINCT
        t.Ordinal,
        t.SchemaName,
        t.TableName,
        t.TableID
    FROM
        TablesCTE AS t
    INNER JOIN
        (
            SELECT
                itt.SchemaName as SchemaName,
                itt.TableName as TableName,
                itt.TableID as TableID,
                Max(itt.Ordinal) as Ordinal
            FROM
                TablesCTE AS itt
            GROUP BY
                itt.SchemaName,
                itt.TableName,
                itt.TableID
        ) AS tt
        ON t.TableID = tt.TableID
        AND t.Ordinal = tt.Ordinal
ORDER BY
    t.Ordinal,
    t.TableName